My high school had a fairly similar situation in 1997. There was quite a bit of chanting and what not going on between the two teams but when our school started calling their star player Buckwheat, that apparently crossed the line, even though the other fans were already calling our star player Pee-wee.

It was a fun local news story and they had to have a big school assembly about the matter. Oddly enough it didn't make the school more tolerant, just made them mad they were made out to be racists when they didn't do anything wrong.

You know what I hate about some Youtube videos? Some of them have just boring generic comments on the first page spanning a couple months worth of views and yet they are thumbed up by the dozens. Other videos have brilliant comments that nobody seems to notice.

I'd be willing to bet that more often than not when someone says something like this (or "tar baby" and similar phrases) today it's just because they're ignorant of the original meaning, not because they're a secret racist who accidentally had a Fruedian slip. No idea if that's the case here, though.

Churchill2004:I'd be willing to bet that more often than not when someone says something like this (or "tar baby" and similar phrases) today it's just because they're ignorant of the original meaning, not because they're a secret racist who accidentally had a Fruedian slip. No idea if that's the case here, though.

It cuts both ways, too. I remember that DC area council member using the word "n*ggardly" when discussing their budgeting process. He nearly lost his job over it.

Because Buckwheat was black. You can't point out someone's black. That's racist! But it's OK if you point out that black people are really good dancers.

I think way way WAY too many people forget that racism is hateful. Pointing out that someone is black or pointing out features on a person that are generally associated with black people, is not racist. It's pointing out differences.

I wish we had black people on fark. Maybe they could explain this to us.

Did this kid have Buckwheat hair or not? That's the only applicable question.

I have a fat fark of a friend who I call "Tommy Boy" because he's fat and he looks like Chris Farley. If he was skinny and looked like Richard Simmons, it would be an unfair nickname. If this kid didn't have Buckwheat hair, then it was uncalled for. If he did, then fair game.

BTW... I have to give proper credit here. This line was spoken by coworker 1 after coworker 2 got pissed. Know what coworker 1 did? Knocked on coworker 2's office window and said, "Hey it's just like the zoo!"

Wanna know whay no one has called Obama buckwheat? Because he don't have a big ass buckwheat fro! Would it be racist towards Irish people to call someone with long crazy red hair carrot top? How about calling a nerdy looking black kid Urkel? How about if he is white? When does this madness stop?

Start worrying about racism when you get pulled out of the line at an airport in the US for 'looking middle eastern-ish' or 'looking like a palestinian'.

And you can't say anything becuase you're not even an american citizen

/Has happened to me//Twice///Even if my passport said I was mexican, even if I had every single ID you can bring in my wallet that supported my passport, even if I spoke the language, even if I sang the anthem, they still thought otherwise

If that's racist, then I declare when a black calls a white 'the man', it's a racial slur. Same with 'whitey'. They shall now refer to us as European Americans, or it's racism. And where are our reparations for all the crime and damage they have commited over the last 150+ years?

The pot and kettle both be black. Unless the kettle's been used more. Then it's blacker.

C'mon, I make fun of my own cracker-osity on the daily. Yo. If you don't wanna be made fun of for your ridiculous haicut (or lack thereof) then that's what cornrows are for. Now where's my MST dvd? I want to watch it while eating Wonderbread and ice cream. Unflavored for me, please!!